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Will the world ever live as one?

5 de janeiro de 2023

“We live in a world we have not yet learned to look at” Marc Augé (Photograph taken at The Beatles Story, Liverpool) We are living in a world in which we are being constantly bombarded with information about everything, from funny memes to world politics. We are often under the impression that we know and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

class discussions, current issues, diversity, global, language skills

Working with emergent language: first steps

3 de dezembro de 2022

by Leandro Zuanazzi

Raise your hand if you have ever felt a tad frustrated when a student poses a question that ends up generating discussion for 15 solid minutes. “There goes my lesson plan,” you begrudgingly accept. As you become more experienced, however, you learn to appreciate those questions and start regarding those discussions as a chance to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Learner Autonomy, Speaking and Spoken Language

The day Glenn Greenwald came up in a conversation that was not about politics — or was it?

5 de agosto de 2019

by Natália Guerreiro

“What do you think of Glenn Greenwald’s Portuguese?” That question came out of the blue to me, but there I was, chatting to an air traffic controller before we started his English proficiency interview about a third person’s Portuguese language proficiency. I thought of a video I saw after the first Vaza Jato news: “Well,...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

assessment, CEFR, criteria, language proficiency, needs analysis, reflections about education

What does ‘good English’ even mean?

5 de novembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

“Your English is so beautiful.” – I sometimes hear, and I promise you I have a point in writing this, which is not that I’m a Leo (although I am). In fact, I’ve always been a bit reticent about those compliments about my English language proficiency, especially when they come from laypeople. I mean, we...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, assessment criteria, communicative competence, fluency, indigenous assessment criteria, research

Investigating the impact of technology to improve learning experiences

5 de setembro de 2018

by Alan Couto

Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore’s article Welcome to the Experience of Economy has on its opening page the following statement: “As goods and services become commoditized, the customer experiences that companies create will matter most.” (Pine and Gilmore, 199:97) and much in the same way, it is a positive experience that learners also seek in...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Speaking and Spoken Language, Technology, Trends in ELT

learning-experiences, practical-english-language-teaching, technology

Do You Listen To English?

12 de maio de 2018

by Stephen Greene

Before you say anything, I am sorry. Yes, I know I’ve said it before, but this time I mean it. I know I have been silent for a few months, and that the last time I was this quiet I apologised and swore it would never happen again. Only it did happen again and here...Read More

Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Listening in English, Listening skills, Teaching listening

How misheard lyrics can help your learners listen better

5 de fevereiro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

Do you have students that complain they can’t understand the listening tracks until you let them read the transcripts? The solution could be in Richard Cauldwell’s work, which has been brought to my attention by my dearest Higor Cavalcante. The author of Phonology for Listening and of the forthcoming A Syllabus for Listening, Cauldwell did an...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

bottom-up, higor cavalcante, language development, Listening, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, richard cauldwell, top-down

Building automaticity: a short story

13 de janeiro de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

Last January 3rd, my husband and I were driving back home from the beautiful state of Minas Gerais. Days before, during our stay in the effervescent Belo Horizonte, the capital city, we had met a very interesting twenty-something Japanese young man in the hostel. His name is Goro and he’d been living in Brazil for...Read More

Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

automaticity, speaking skills, spoken language

Speaking: how much of “controlled practice” is actually “contrived practice”?

13 de novembro de 2017

by Gabriela Fróes

[This is a reflection; I am not here to give you answers nor do I have any. I would like to pick your brain about something that has been bothering me for long.] The first time I went to Argentina was in 2010. Getting there, my former boyfriend, having learned a little of the language...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

Controlled practice, speaking, Spoken grammar

Oops! A lesson on embarrassing stories

5 de novembro de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

If you are suffering from Novemberitis and need a comical interlude or just an idea for a lesson, here’s an integrated-skills lesson plan for B2 learners. The topic is embarrassing stories and students will read about it to get in the topic, listen to a celebrity telling her own stories and talk throughout. The main...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Speaking and Spoken Language

conversation classes, embarrassing stories, integrated skills, lesson plan, Listening, narrative theory, reading, speaking, storytelling, telling stories

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